So that’s when the police came up and they jumped out of the car. And they were saying they were going to take him to jail. And I said, “Do you have a warrant?” And they said — they backed up and they saw me with the shotgun. And, so, I said, “If you don’t […]
Read More Remembering Mabel WilliamsCan we not acknowledge that there are deep disagreements among us with our very lives and destinies at stake? — Dr. Cornel West in Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle, Guardian, Dec. 17, 2017 Quoting Dr. Cornel West’s words seemed to be a good initial approach as I partially unpack […]
Read More West and Coates should look EastAtlanta’s mayoral race is one of those stories I should have rapped about a long time ago. Just never got around to it. I couldn’t predict Keisha Lance Bottoms’ victory but I also didn’t think Vincent Fort — my choice — would be the next mayor. Most of the candidates appeared neither confident nor specific […]
Read More Atlanta, inequality, Keisha Lance Bottoms and this strange fascination with an airportI dig songwriter-musician Saoul Bumbu’s latest album, The Juice, for a reason similar to why I have a problem with much of modern Pop music recordings: the songs — even the ones performed by highly competent musicians — sound like the artists are simply playing by the numbers. And you then wonder if the culprit […]
Read More Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — The Juice (Independent Release)“The President speaks for himself, Chris.” This week’s Sunday Smack focuses on US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remark today on Fox News about how President Donald Trump “speaks for himself” when sharing views of the recent racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia: https://youtu.be/fl7iZUTTrD0 Interviewer Chris Wallace appeared stunned to hear Tillerson’s comment. My questions to […]
Read More Sunday Smack: Rex Tillerson and His Trump CommentThis tweet by @megsauce about the new Wonder Woman movie is destroying the Internet right now: “No wonder white men are obscenely confident all the time. I saw one woman hero movie and I’m ready to fight a thousand dudes barehanded.’ There are people on Twitter who are disagreeing with every bit of that statement. […]
Read More Sunday Smack: Wonder Woman and Images of Power“The Strange Persistence of Guilt” piece by New York Times writer David Brooks — where he equates President Donald Trump’s chief strategist and Alt-Right icon Steve Bannon with Martiniquan psychologist, writer, philosopher and radical Frantz Fanon — is the inspiration for today’s Sunday Smack. Before Brooks raised eyebrows with his comparison, he provided some context: […]
Read More Sunday Smack: Is Steve Bannon the Frantz Fanon of White People?Partisan politics makes many politicians look like strung-out lovers — feeling an inexplicably dumb compulsion to support the lamebrain propositions of their political parties and appearing even dumber when publicly doubling down their support, even when confronted with facts that prove their supported positions make no sense. Reenter Florida Congressperson and former DNC Chair Debbie […]
Read More Debbie Wasserman Schultz and healthcare — won’t help Democrats find salvationThe latest news about the Clinton Global Initiative formally filing its intent with New York State to shut down and lay-off 22 employees reminds me of what I said in my last piece — the Party of No Guts will have to exorcise the demons of its past to regain relevance among voters. CGI would have a problem staying […]
Read More Clinton Global Initiative Shutdown — Post-Election Reminder for Party CleansingRemember Steve Mnuchin, the Goldman Sachs guy who became President-elect Donald Trump’s chief fundraising guy during this year’s campaign? He could be The Donald’s pick for Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin followed up his 17-year run as a Goldman Sachs banker — where he led the firm’s mortgage-backed trading group and also became the investment bank’s chief […]
Read More Trump May Pick Hard-Core ‘Whites Only’ Banker for Treasury Secretary
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